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Dingrui(Frank) Zhang, CA

Education

Graduate Diploma of Chartered Accounting

Chartered Accountants Australia and New Zealand

Sydney, Australia

2023 - 2021

Master of Professional Accounting

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

2019 - 2017

Exchange Student Program (Major in Accounting)

University of New South Wales

Sydney, Australia

2017 - 2016

Bachelor of Management (Major in Accounting)

Hebei University of Economics and Business

Shijiazhuang, China

2016 - 2013

Professional Experience

Senior Consultant, Data Analytics

PwC Australia

Sydney, Australia

Present - 2021 Jul

  • Utilised data analysis and visualisation/dashboard techniques to provide clients with powerful business insights regarding their data. This would in turn help them make informed strategic decisions. Tools used include Alteryx, SQL, Power BI, Python, R, Tableau and Qlik Sense.
  • Assisted clients in the identification and management of business risks by assessing the current state, prioritising improvements and conducting projects to reduce risk, standardise and automate business processes
  • Identified and remediated control and performance gaps compared to leading practice, helped clients gain business insights and achieve commercial objectives
  • Worked closely with both internal and external stakeholders to initiate decisions and execute implementation that drive projects
  • Provided coaching and mentoring to junior team members which help them grow

Consultant, Data Analytics

PwC Australia

Sydney, Australia

2021 June - 2020 Jan

  • Worked on data analysis and visualisation, and bring data analytic techniques to bear on a wide variety of problems.
  • Developed and maintained easy-to-use product and provided training and documentation for both internal and external parties. Tools used include: Google App Script, Python and VBA
  • Highly experienced in data remediation projects. Helped clients understand and remediate compliance issues.

Finance Analyst

The University of Sydney

Sydney, Australia

2019 Dec - 2019 Aug

  • Designed, developed and maintained standardized budget/forecast models, tools and guidelines to improve the accuracy, consistency, timeliness and quality of budgeting and forecasting throughout the Faculties and these are continued to be used across the University faculties.

Data Analyst

Travelzoo

Sydney, Australia

2019 Aug - 2018 Dec

  • Built and maintained quarterly/monthly dashboard for different countries and provided ad-hoc support which provided strategic measurements for management.

Junior Financial Analyst

UBI Logistics (Australia) Pty Ltd

Sydney, Australia

2018 Sep - 2017 Aug

  • Developed a procedure to analyse data, identify discrepancies and design reporting mechanism, which allow on-time and accurate measure of the company performance. This procedure is still utilized and has been able to recover more than 120,000 AUD in the past 1 year, which otherwise would be lost because of the information inaccuracy.

Professional Development/Projects

Full Member (3088357)

Chartered Accountants ANZ

N/A

Present - 2023 Mar

CFA Level 1

CFA Institute (link to certificate)

N/A

Present - 2018 Aug

Alteryx Core Certificate

Alteryx (link to certificate)

N/A

Present - 2020 Jan

Pyfwc

(link to project)

N/A

N/A

  • A Python library provides wrapper around Australian Fair Work Commission API.